The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-05
COMMENT AND OPINION.

| SEVERAL members of the Cabinet are expected
| 20 accompany the President on his Western tour
| The boys may yet have a chance to shake dice
| with Garland.-Detroit Tribune
THOSE who indulge the idea that the Demo
Gratis going to enjoy political picnic in 1885
! may just well disabuse their own and the
minds of others of this delusion.-Macon Tele.
| graph (Dem.)
GEORGE WIN. CURTIS and his select set of self
satisfied cyclists regulating the affairs of the
country from Newport. The difficulty with Mr..
| Curtis and his friends is that their regulations
don't regulate.-St. Louis Republican.
DUEL which is pronounced by the seconds
on both sides to be at once necessary and i'm
possible, possesses the usuel merit of French
political duels in the absence OF personal danger
for the combatants-New York Times.
Mr.. CLEvELANDs avowed opposition to COM
mittees of invitation may finally extend to all
forms of personal application for office. It is
his patriotic desire to boom the business of the
Postofice Department.-St.L Louis Post Dispatch.
AFTER DR.. McGlynn succeeds in abolishing
all the national banks, perhaps he will take q
turn at the United States Treasury. That is
the biggest kind of banking institution, and
ultra monopolistic in its principles.-Philadel-
phia Inquirer
ONE of the immediate problems of our civiliza-
ton is to put our railways under honest man
agemenL There is reason to believe that the
pirates and buccaneers of commerce will sooner
or later be rooted out in this particular they
have been in others.-New York World.
THE absolute quiet of what was once the
ment. Judge Gresham once considerably
talked of possible candidate and nothing
but good was heard about him. One dav, how
ever, narrowing rumor appeared that he had
shown mugwump tendencies. This cast a cold
ness over the meeting. under which he has gone
into eclipse that threatens to be permanent.
Boston Herald.
THE administration of Grover Cleveland has
been a chain of which the links have been made
of broken pledges and objectionable ignorance.
Notwithstanding this the mugwumps cling to
their idol. The fact that it is made of very
poor quality of clay has effect upon them, and
pledge after pledge is shattered, they only
cringe the more The spectacle of these political
saints kissing the feet of the most patent foe OF
their cardinal virtue, is truly fit for the gods,
not men.-Minneapolis Tribune.
THERE may have been some Republicans
sufficiently creduious to believe the assertions
of heated partisans, made during the tendency
of the recent campaign, that the Republican
chance of election. There numbers must, how
ever, have been small. and the election of the
Democratic ticket by about the usual majorities
is no more than cool headed people looked for.
that Kentucky will be the wedge with which the
solid South is by and by to be split asunder.
philadelphia North American.
THE Baltimore Civil-service League have per-
haps not been encouraged, by the attention paid
to previous remonstrances, to continue in the
role of compliments. But the President hould
understand that he Is the party most immedi-
ately concerned. If he learns from the news
papers that these members of the civil service
have been INDUCING in acts and utterances most
derogatory to his administration. the person
most interested TO inquire into the matter is ono
Grover Cleveland. And it is because Mr.. C1eve-
land is himself the party most directly interested
in the inquiry that there is a standing back to
to do anything about it-Springfeld Repub-
licaQ.